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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Alopecosa  Simon, 1885   58 species

Alopecosa psammophila Buchar, 2001

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037704

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Description

Prosoma red-brown, with slightly brighter marginal stripe and distinct median stripe. Male: with white, lyra-shaped spot, eye field black. Prosoma length female: 4.1-5.1 mm, prosoma length male: 4.3-4.5 mm. Sternum dark brown. Chelicerae black-brown. Legs light brown, with light yellow coxae. Femur grey-blackish, dorsally with black longitudinal spots. Opisthosoma light grey with vague pattern, ventrally light grey. Male: dorsally with 2 black longitudinal stripes.

Body length male: 8-8.5 mm
Body length female: 7.7-10.5 mm
Additional information

In steppe, sand dunes. Genital morphology very similar to P. kalavrita

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Russia (Europe)
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Buchar 2001)

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male Tegular apophysis
(Buchar 2001)

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male Tegular apophysis
(Buchar 2001)

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male Habitus
(Buchar 2001)

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female Epigyne
(Buchar 2001)

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female Epigyne
(Buchar 2001)

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female Vulva
(Buchar 2001)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Czechia   (Buchar, 2001; Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Hungary   (Szinetár et al., 2005) ||| Romania   (Sas-Kovács et al., 2015) ||| Russia, Central   (Alekseenko, 2019) ||| Slovakia   (Buchar, 2001) |||
References

Alekseenko Y G (2019) [Zoogeographical analysis of araneophauna of steppous plots of the Ulyanovsk region with data on area expansing of several species]. Izvestiya of Saratov University (N. S.) Chemistry Biology Ecology 19: 223-229 pdf

Buchar J (2001) Two new species of the genus Alopecosa (Araneae: Lycosidae) from south-eastern Europe. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica 45: 257-266 pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Sas-Kovács É-H, Sas-Kovács I, Urák I (2015) Alopecosa psammophila Buchar, 2001 (Araneae: Lycosidae): morphometric data and first record for Romania. Turkish Journal of Zoology 39: 353-358 pdf

Szinetár C, Eichardt J, Horváth R (2005) Data on the biology of Alopecosa psammophila Buchar 2001 (Araneae, Lycosidae). Journal of Arachnology 33: 384-389 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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